I came to Mass Effect 2 late, and after a couple of weeks of man-chat and man-shoot, finished it off last night. And so, I wandered off to Youtube to have a look for some of the choices I stepped away from and to relive my sexing of a mental lizard. At which point, I come across the make-up tutorials of UtopianDream (Who’s affiliated with the splendidly-named gamer-model agency Charisma +2 ). Her initial Miranda Mass Effect 2 one seems to have been linked quite widely back in February – which I missed – but her later ones for Morrigan Dragon age and (RPS IRRELEVANT!) Bayonetta (er) Bayonetta have been ignored. UNTIL NOW. Do you do requests, UtopianDream? If so, SHODAN. Go on. You know you want to. Her tutorials follow…

And no-one, but no-one is going to get the band the title line is referencing. At least without googling.

That’s because at the beginning of the video she is already wearing the make-up. To see the difference pause her first video at 0:25. Open a second window and compare.
At least the difference around the eyes should be obvious.

I first thought Eurithmics…but the song I’m thinking of when reading the title is a bit too much pop for that…so rather Roxette? So man possible references. That’s why music is great.

I’m not going through 5 minutes of make-up-videos to find out, so can somebody tell me if she’s going to dress up as Miranda as well? Then it might be worth watching I guess. But still, I find the video of the guy making his own Big Daddy-costume more interesting..

I can’t see a woman withouth thinking about the evolution of our culture on the last 100.000 years, the gestalt, patos and subtext of our civilization, the diference betwean social adquired and genetic, the apropos and naive of genres, the fight of the achiever versus the collector, competition versus cooperation. But the time I have stoped looking as his ass, I have revised about the 90% of the human gnosis.

This reminds me:
I had a horrible Google experience from this post, because Kieron was mentioning Shodan make-up and I googled for images of her. Up came a sexy Shodan, which isn’t all too shocking. But the advertising is from something called “Bad Dragon Adult Toys” which is kind of… strange. Go find it yourself, I’m not going to link to it.

Doing eye make up effectively is one of the skills that I just don’t posses. Even if I did though, I’m not sure I’m even remotely geeky enough to try emulating the look of a character in a computer game. Still, some nice general tips, ta.

I don’t know much about make-up, but I don’t believe a webcam is suited to the task of conveying the subtle differences in style. In person, I’d guess everyone here would see a difference, unless gaming has destroyed your sight.

I’m not a big fan of makeup in a woman. I really do prefer no makeup at all. But as age settles in, this becomes, for most women, unacceptable. No matter how much their husbands (me, in this case) beg them not to.

But sometimes I sit at the foot of my bed watching my wife do her makeup. And really she looks so lovely when doing it. There’s something about the gestures, the head movements, the facial expressions, that is a celebration to women beauty and uniqueness.

I understand some people may see that as a sexist observation. Maybe I won’t gather the sympathy of especially the feminist bunch. But really, to me the makeup ritual is a very sensual moment. Long live women!